Software Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our remote team. Candidates must have several years of professional experience and experience building Android applications.

This role is cross-functional, initially focusing on an Android project, with opportunities to pivot into other areas after its completion. The role will evolve based on both the team's needs and the candidate’s interests. Future opportunities could involve further mobile development (Android or iOS), full-stack work in TypeScript (including some DevOps), or a combination of these areas..

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone eager to take on diverse responsibilities and contribute to multiple projects across a wide range of technologies.

Candidates must be based in the U.S., with a preference for those who can work during Eastern Time (ET) hours.

ABOUT US

Gambyt's mission is to make real-money gaming products more relevant and accessible to the world. We are specialists in the lottery industry and create products that deliver life-changing winning moments to players while raising billions of dollars every year for good causes such as public education, nature conservancy, and programs for seniors.

Through our agile software development practice, we create digital products such as games, loyalty programs, and user experiences that are loved by players. Our team consists of extremely talented product managers, UX/UI designers, software engineers, project managers and quality testers that collaborate closely to achieve our vision.

We have rebuilt our company around a distributed remote-work engagement model. To help strengthen connections across our team, we provide resources to support employee engagement and well-being, organize monthly virtual activities, and regularly experiment with new benefits for remote work.

Though fully remote, we are headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which was ranked as a top 3 tech hub by Bloomberg, and is located in the first state in the country where all forms of internet wagering (lottery, casino, sports) have been legalized. We are on the ground floor of an industry revolution that is ripe for digital disruption and looking to expand our world-class team.

DEVELOPMENT CULTURE

We work in an agile framework and believe in utilizing strong team communication, pair programming, automation, and testing to drive our success. Our tech stack consists of TypeScript, Node, Express, React, Postgres, and Redis. We also build native mobile applications with Swift and Kotlin. We host and manage our infrastructure on AWS and Heroku. We favor candidates with strong software engineering fundamentals that can learn quickly.

REQUIREMENTS

A successful candidate should possess:

• Several years of industry experience building software in a team environment
• Strong computer science and software engineering fundamentals
• Passion for software and problem solving
• Clear communication skills and ability to work with others
• Experience with our technologies is nice, but not required. It is more important to possess strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to learn quickly (though Android experience is required for this role). Our technologies consist of the following:
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Node (with Express)
  • React
  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • Heroku
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • GitHub Actions

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

All full-time employees are provided with:

• Remote work environment

• Competitive compensation packages

• Performance and anniversary bonus programs

• Equity program in our privately-held company

• Unlimited vacation and personal leave

• Summer Fridays during the summer months (coordinated company wide time off)

• Excellent health and dental benefits, with no premium copays

• 401k program with guaranteed company contribution

• Monthly perks like food delivery to your home

• Monthly cell phone and computer stipend

Learn more at www.gambyt.com